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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Rhode Island rates for HCPCS 49185

A needle or fine tube is passed through the skin into a pocket of fluid such as a cyst, a collection of lymph fluid, or a seroma left after surgery, with imaging used to guide it and contrast injected first to show the size and shape of the pocket. A solution is then injected that irritates the lining so the pocket scars down and stops refilling. It can be done wherever such a collection forms, not only in the abdomen or pelvis.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution cost?

$3,262

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,262 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $692 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,570 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$692$155 to $1,288
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,570$1,660 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,570 · 10th to 90th $676 to $4,365Professionalmedian $692 · 10th to 90th $120 to $1,479
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,570professional $692

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,288.25
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,041.74
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$676.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,949.84

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 6.7 times more in New Jersey than in Maryland. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Rhode Island· 22nd of 50

$3,262

$692 physician + $2,570 facility

NJ $6,366MD $947

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.